The eagerly awaited sequent to the #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from an legend fantasy writer at the top of his game. After forming a confederation of human resistance against the bandit offensive, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal battle. Neither party has gained an advantage. Now, as new technological formulas begin to change the face of the battle, the bandit prepares a bold and dangerous operation. The arms race that follows will challenge the very basis of the Radiant ethic, and potentially reveal the formulas of the ancient tower that was once the heart of their strength. At the concurrent that Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with his changing job within the Knights Radiant, his Windrunners face their own problem: As more and more deadly bandit Fused arouse to bombard, no more honorspren are willing to tie-in with humans to increase the collection of Radiants. Adolin and Shallan must lead the confederation’s envoy to the honorspren bastion of Lasting Integrity and either convince the spren to join the faith against the evil god Odium, or personally face the storm of flash in the pan. .